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A lot of us are looking for new ways to fill the days, but have no fear, Alex Horne is here. The creator of popular British series Taskmaster has created HomeTasking, a new series on YouTube that challenges viewers to their own tasks that can be done around the house. With a heaping dose of creativity, ingenuity, and lots of fun, tons of submissions have come in that will make you laugh, smile, and think about how you can put your own originality and energy to use. Get those creative juices flowing as Alex hopes to keep us busy indoors for the duration of the quarantine, which is just enough time to get you featured in one of the videos that have been trending lately on YouTube.

Spike Lee's 1986 film She's Gotta Have It depicts a young, Black artist, Nola Darling, primarily through the perspective of the three men she's seeing. As Nola notes with her final line, the men who tell her story only "might know parts of [her]." These three men—Jamie, Greer, and Mars (played by Lee himself)—along with Nola's father and... Read more

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She's Gotta Have It

Produced by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmounds and written and directed by George Tillman Jr., Soul Food is a heartfelt and lively dramedy about a close-knit Black family whose members gather for dinner every week in Chicago. Big Mama Joe (the great Irma P.Hall) is the tie that binds her three daughters: uptight Teri (Vanessa Williams), outspoken Maxine... Read more

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Soul Food

Melina Matsoukas, who created Beyonce's "Formation" music video, made her feature-length directorial debut with last year's Queen & Slim. The film follows a young Black couple on their first date, played by Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen) and Daniel Kaluuya (Slim). When a white police officer pulls them over for a minor traffic violation,... Read more

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Queen & Slim

Writer/Director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s third feature is Beyond The Lights, a stunning film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Noni, a British mega popstar with an overbearing stage mom (Minnie Driver) and a miserable life. When Noni tries to commit suicide by jumping off a balcony, hunky LAPD officer Kaz (Nate Parker) saves her life. Noni and Kaz grow ... Read more

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I Like It Like That

Hamilton’s own Daveed Diggs co-wrote and starred in Blindspotting, which follows themes of police brutality and gentrification in Oakland. Collin (Diggs) is trying to make it through the last three days of his probation, while his aggressive white childhood friend Miles (Rafael Casal) only makes it harder for him. One evening, as he waits for a... Read more

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Blindspotting

Netflix's Dear White Peopletakes Justin Simien's 2014 film to new heights. The series, which was picked up for a fourth and final season in the fall, follows a group of Black students at Winchester University as they struggle to come to terms with the pervasive racism so often engrained in elite institutions. While Simien's... Read more

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Dear White People

It took way too long, but one of the most important sitcoms of all time is now available to stream: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is on HBO Max. Not only did this sitcom launch Will Smith, arguably the biggest movie star of the '90s, into the stratosphere; the show also depicted black excellence that was not squeaky clean and never stuffy. The show... Read more